AI Architect

Job Description

As an AI Architect at Avanade, you will play a critical role in shaping our growing community of Agentic AI experts, defining how we design, build, and deliver agentic solutions at scale. Alongside this, you will lead the solutioning, architecture, and delivery of large, complex agentic AI solutions for clients using the latest Microsoft technologies.

This role combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong architectural leadership. You will influence Avanade’s technical direction in agentic AI, build capability across teams, and work closely with senior client stakeholders to shape requirements, define architectures, and deliver high-impact solutions.

Role Responsibilities

1. Shaping Capability and Community

• Act as a technical leader within the AI & Data practice, mentoring architects and senior engineers.
• Stay ahead of Microsoft’s AI roadmap and emerging agentic patterns, translating these into practical guidance.
• Help shape and grow Avanade’s Agentic AI community by establishing best practices, architectural patterns, standards, and reusable assets.
• Contribute to thought leadership, internal enablement, and the evolution of Avanade’s agentic AI offerings.

1. Client Solutioning and Architecture

• Lead solution shaping activities with clients to understand requirements and define solution direction.

• Shape and own end-to-end architecture for complex agentic AI solutions from concept to production.

• Design and deliver solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, build, integration, and deployment.

• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, governance, scalability, and operational readiness.

1. Leadership, Delivery, and Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead delivery of large, complex AI programmes involving multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders.

• Engage confidently with senior client audiences and act as a trusted technical advisor.

• Support pre-sales activities including shaping propositions, contributing to proposals, and leading technical bids.

Qualification

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant hands-on experience delivering solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Deep technical expertise in designing and implementing agentic AI architectures.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large, complex AI solutions.
• Strong experience working directly with clients to shape requirements and manage senior stakeholders.
• Ability to operate across strategy, architecture, and hands-on delivery.
• Experience working in consulting or professional services environments.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience working with Azure AI Foundry or equivalent Azure-based AI platforms.
• Experience with Azure services such as Azure OpenAI, Functions, Logic Apps, and API Management.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform integration patterns.
• Knowledge of enterprise governance, security, and responsible AI frameworks.
• Experience developing architects and senior engineers.
• Microsoft certifications in AI, Azure, or Power Platform (desirable).

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
• Collaborate with some of the brightest “Microsoft minds”
• Build your expertise, solve problems, learn, and develop

Find out more about some of our benefits here .

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn more

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• thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance
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